Also making it are Robert Downey Sr.’s “Putney Swope,” Jennie Livingston’s “Paris Is Burning,” Edwin S. Porter’s “Life of an American Fireman,” D.W. Griffith’s “Musketeers of Pig Alley,” Richard Brooks’ “Blackboard Jungle,” Lewis Milestone’s “A Walk in the Sun,” the films of Solomon Sir Jones, the short film “The Beau Brummels,” Howard Hawks’ “Ball of Fire,” Kevin Rafferty’s “The Atomic Cafe” and the documentaries “Suzanne, Suzanne” and “The Decline of Western Civilization”.

Under the terms of the National Film Preservation Act, the Librarian of Congress each year names to the registry 25 motion pictures that are “culturally, historically or aesthetically” significant and at least ten years old.